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Justus2.

Conmputerizied version of Federation and Empire. It's been ported into both Vassal and Cyberboard and we have a programmer working on F&EOnline using the SFBOnline engine. It's still a two+person game with the computer taking care of some of the accounting (and moving a huge map and counters off the table). I'd love to get Matrix and ADB together to do Matrix F&E but....

Ryan
Also on ADB Staff

Cool! Thanks. Will have to check it out.

ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

Starfleet Battles Baby! Snap Turn! Fire all phaser I's and photon torpedoes

Good God, I had some epic battles. There is nothing like having to maneuver your ship to fire the last remaining phaser when your shields are down.

Easy game, move and shoot... [;)]

ORIGINAL: rjopel

I'd love to get Matrix and ADB together to do Matrix F&E but....

Ryan
Also on ADB Staff

We have made the introductions, it is out of our hands.

Spent WAYYYYY too much time on SFB, F&E, not mention good stuff like 5th fleet, Rail Baron, and many many more. Thanks for that awesome Vassal link!

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Avalon Hill had Advanced Third Reich and Empire of the Rising Sun. These were excellent strategic games that could be linked together and played as "Global War 2000," which was an amazingly poor choice of names. (Actually, GWY2K wasn't a formal game, but rather the system developed by players to link the two games and play be email.) A3R is still one of the best games I've ever played. ERS was also very good, though probably not as good as A3R. Both games had a research system that was fabulous.

I still have nearly mint condition copies of A3R and ERS, plus Victory Games War in the Pacific. Sometimes I take them out just to admire the maps and counters.

I was a play tester for the Computer A3R, but thats another subject.

ERS was in fact a horrible game. Japan couldnt lose, and I said as much. I was asked to submit an article for the General explaining why I felt this way and what I felt were the shortcomings and my strat (the designers were dead set to prove me wrong). I wrote a very detailed set of instructions on how Japan could win the game every time.

It really wasnt that difficult. You simply did nothing as Japan. You could do limited attacks in China if you wanted, but the key was the American activation table. If Japan did nothing to raise the tension level (like conducting offensives, building carriers, fortifying islands, ect) the earliest the USA could enter the war was the Spring 44 turn. This gave the US at best 6 turns to build their force pool. As it took 4 turns to build a naval unit, this effectively gave the US 2 turns to "beat" Japan, which couldnt be done. A couple of months after I wrote that article (which needless to say was never published), AH released a modified tension table in the General. Never played that version of the game.

IMHO Advanced Third Reich (without the Pacific additional game) was probably the single best game ever made. It certainly was the one I played the most. The computer version was probably in the top 10 of the worst games I ever played lol.

Played a lot of AH games with my siblings.  3R and A3R when it came out were favorites of ours.

Well guys i manage to win the bids on ebay for this boardgame (War in the Pacific 2nd Edition) for 222.50 plus 25 for shipping, it weighted almost thirteen pounds. The retail price for this massive huge board game is 420.00, that pretty darn expensive.

The only problems is that i need to find someone willing to play this with me, doubt if this can be played by email. I could however make an AI charts on the opponent of rolling dies to make it own moves for someone less experiences to play or test it myself. Just have to pretend you dont know what the enemy is doing.

Rising

ORIGINAL: RisingSun
Im sorry i meant "Pacific War" wasnt sure what brand that is, hard to til in the picture. Victory games perhap, but i think its Avalon Hills.

Got it, mint condition, sitting in my basement, along with SPI's War in Europe and War in the Pacific. The latter, unfortunately, not in mint condition ...

First one I played was Tactics II from AH I believe. Tactics II? Oh crap I must be getting old!

I bought it when it cam out. I think the preorder price was 275. If there were any scenarios I would not mind playing one.

Are you near Albany. I am in CT.

ORIGINAL: foliveti

I bought it when it cam out. I think the preorder price was 275. If there were any scenarios I would not mind playing one.

Are you near Albany. I am in CT.

I live north of Albany, in Clifton Park. Not far, probably like 15-20 mintues away.

I wonder how many full games have ever been completed.

There is a legend of one having been completed as a play test.

a Matrix F&E would be outstanding.

a computerized SFB would be great too. (The SFC series was a near miss but ruined by doubled internals and crappy AI that makes AE's seem like Skynet)

I have a pseudo version of a computerized SFB on my laptop. It auto tracks movement and rolls for damage on and hits and stuff eliminating the need for all the sheets of paper and tables and maps which require in turn a ManCave to setup. (or an extra bedroom)

I think the first wargame I played was Uboat by AH. It had simple mechanics and you could play a bunch of games in an afternoon but the games could be sometimes be really tense. About the same time the kid across the street got Waterloo by AH and the kid down the street got Conflict (by Parker Brothers (?) - had neat little cannons for the land units though). Had a great time. Pretty neat stuff for 1964.

I must have spent thousands of dollars subsequently buying dang near everything that came out from 1965 to about 1990...but in the end I have to confess it was mostly a waste of money since I could almost never find anyone to play against. Those few games I really played against a real person hold a special place in my hear though. I still have a copy of "Waterloo" hanging around on the shelf (with SPIs "Winter War" in the same box), along with AH's "Russian Front", Victory Games "American Civil War" and Command Games "Proud Monster" (which I played against a person) and its sequel which I forgot the name of (and never played against anyone). Anyways it was fun.

ORIGINAL: borner

a Matrix F&E would be outstanding.

Oh man.......[&o]

I Would be up for F&E in a big way. I would also be up for SFB... When I was big into SFB I programed a tool for playing SFB. I programed in all the charts and several ships for the duel scenario. so all you needed were the map board and ship counters to play. Also had a aid for F&E that tracked all planets and did up economic calculations. Plus ship production and upgrades. Did play it on the map and do combat manually. Didn't finished the programing for tracing units and locations or combat. Moved on to other things before finishing it.

ORIGINAL: spence
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Pretty neat stuff for 1964.
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Yep, 1964 was when I played my first game of Tactics II. Then moved up to D-Day. Back in those days you could sometimes find these games in the toy section of the local K-Mart type of store.

Later, spent hours playing Midway - a true beer and pretzels game.